AKA: none
Other ID: E-R2-11-WA
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Amy Draut, Amy East
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Transects
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Repeat topographic surveys of sample transects. Conduct photographic transects on river bars. Collect terrestrial lidar scans of study reaches and reservoir deltas.
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Start Date: 2011-09-06
End Date: 2011-09-20
Equipment Used: Total Station, CobbleCam, Lidar
Information to be Derived: Grain size of river sediments prior to dam removal. Topography of study reaches and reservoir deltas.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
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Notes: To see LIDAR virtual flight, see URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tEvz-rEz3Q&feature=youtu.be
Location:
WA
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 49.75 | South: 45.25 | West: -127.75 | East: -116.25 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
Draut, A.E., and Ritchie, A.C., 2015, Sedimentology of new fluvial deposits on the Elwha River, Washington, USA, formed during large-scale dam removal: River Research and Applications, v. 31 no. 1, 42â61 p., doi: 10.1002/rra.2724.
East, A.E., Pess, G.R., Bountry, J.A., Magirl, C.S., Ritchie, A.C., Logan, J.B., Randle, T.J., Mastin, M.C., Minear, J.T., Duda, J.J., Liermann, M.C., McHenry, M.L., Beechie, T.J., and Shafroth, P.B., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change: Geomorphology, v. 228, pp. 765–786, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.08.028.
Logan, J., 2012, New Video Shows a Virtual Fly-Through Along the Lower Elwha River, Washington, Using Recently Acquired Ground-Based Lidar Data: U. S. Geological Survey Sound Waves, Mar/Apr. 2012, http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2012/04/pubs.html.
Warrick, J., Bountry, J.A., East, A., Magirl, C.S., Randle, T.J., Gelfenbaum, G.R., Ritchie, A.C., Pess, G.R., Leung, V., Duda, J., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: source-to-sink sediment budget and synthesis: Geomorphology, v. 246, pp. 729–750, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.010.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Station | --- | Benchmarks Profiles Transects | |
| CobbleCam | --- | Photo | |
| Lidar | --- | LIDAR |
